Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreign spheres. Smartly and swiftly he had picked up a cue dropped by his predecessor, Anthony Eden, in the House of Commons debate the day before. Eden had said that atomic weapons and "every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty." Eden's counsel: "Abate our present ideas of sovereignty [and] take the sting out of nationalism." His conclusion: the veto power of the Big Five of the United Nations Organization's Security Council should be revised...
Better known in North Carolina than he was in Washington, General Royall left a $50,000 law practice in Goldsboro, N.C. in June 1942, to take a colonelcy and an assignment as chief of the Army Service Forces' Legal Section. Appointed by the President, he served as counsel for the eight German saboteurs-a job which, as a professional, he thoroughly enjoyed. Afterwards he sank back into the obscurity of the ASF's Legal Section, until Henry Stimson discovered him and made him his special assistant...
...Reich Marshal Hermann Göring: "Of course, I want counsel. But it is even more important to have a good interpreter...
...Chief of Staff Colonel General Alfred Jodl: "From what category does counsel come? Do I choose a criminal or an international lawyer...
...Minister of Economics Walther Funk wept: "I can request counsel at once, can't I? I am trying to preserve my health. I have the greatest interest in the conclusion of this trial...